President Obama’s lead pollster, Joel Benenson, took issue with the wild variations in the Gallup polling data – and the various public surveys that were widely off the mark – in a post-election interview with POLITICO.

Overlooked because of the Mitt Romney commentary was this bit from Chris Christie's appearance on "Morning Joe," announcing an agreement involving merit-pay with the teachers' union, and he appeared with AFT head Randi Weingarten, via Capital New York:

For weeks ahead of Election Day, after early voting began in dozens of states, the RNC and the Mitt Romney campaign claimed that Democrats were merely cannibalizing their portion of "high-propensity voters" — voters who were going to turn out on election day regardless — and that that accounted for an imbalance in the early stats.

Tim Pawlenty on Friday disputed Mitt Romney’s controversial remarks claiming that President Barack Obama won reelection by handing out “gifts” to his core constituencies, saying in an interview that American voters do not have the mentality of, “I’m going to vote because of gifts.”